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Anyone here a member of a political party? Like, you pay them and shit?

Some guy at my school is trying to get me to join Labour. He goes to all the meetings and conferences and what not, and hes only 15 and often the youngest person there by many years. Its odd. He was getting all passionate about it like "NOW is the time to join. The party's really striding forward at the moment."

but yeah, there is no rule that says they can't also be employed by the party. and you're right, the minister hires them and pays them an hourly rate using civil service funds. i'm not sure it's acceptable, really.

someone told me the other day that the term 'think tank' was rhyming slang and that it have developed from 'think tanker - wanker'

From my experience, anyway, civil servants and SpAds are kept very seperate, and theoretically the SpAds shouldn't actually have any power over the civil servants to boss them about. It never works out like that in practice though.

I think it's a bit dodge' that they get paid by the civil service though, espcially the amount they do. One SpAd I knew owned a house in Green Park. Truly labour through and through.

I'm a member of the Labour Party, though. Yes. It has been good for me. I've had the chance to do lots of very useful voluntary work and that. But Labour Party members are, by an overwhelming majority, a bunch of self-indulgent cranks and lunatics.

1. its the cheapest and membership is kind of priced in a slightly more social just way
2. you get loads of intersteing stuff (ironically printed rather than emailed which you end up having to recycle)
3. its cool to be different/unconformist (apparently)
4. sian berry is hot